FINAL PROGRAM

Session Chair Responsibilities

Please view the Technical Program for information about the session you are chairing.

A copy of the author biographies will be sent to you. Contacting the presenters in your session(s) is a way of ensuring their attendance and commitment to the meeting.

Check for any late program updates on the room sign outside of the meeting room.

You will receive Session Report form to be signed by presenter after presentation. Please make sure that all presenters sign the form as a proof for paper’s eligibility to be indexed in IEEEXplore.

Chairing the Session:

Introduce the session topic.

Introduce the speakers

Maintain the program schedule. Total time for each presenter is 15 minutes with 12 minutes presentation time and 3 minutes discussion.

Be prepared for the unexpected!

If you find a presenter has failed to attend:

Contact the organizing committee (parallel session committee) to make sure that the presenter attends the conference. The parallel session committee will check on registration list in registration desk.

Note the no show on the Session Report form.

If possible, please try NOT TO move to the next paper. Attendees plan for the talks they want to hear based on the published schedule. Instead, please choose one of these options:

Open the floor to an extended Q&A session for speakers who have already presented

Have one or two controversial topics ready for discussion

Bring a topic on your laptop for presentation and/or discussion

Open the floor for discussion on any topic of interest to the audience